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David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> I recently started using Gnus for mail and news reading (a big step up
> from Netscape!), and I have a small suggestion. As I tend to get mails
> with large binary attachments (> 2MB) and only have a modem connection, I
> want the option not to get these mails (which I don't need on my side of
> the modem anyway). To accomplish this, I hacked a small
> movemail-replacement, which asks me whether or not I want to download a
> large message (I also have the option to download the first X
> lines). Until a few minutes ago, I didn't know that pop3.el existed.
> 
> I think a couple of vars in pop3.el - one with max length and one with
> the default action (nil - ignore, t or ask - ask the user whether to
> download or not, or # - only download the first # lines). My elisp
> knowledge is unfortunately limited to editing my .emacs and .gnus files,
> so I couldn't do it myself.
> 
> What do you think? Is this something that might be useful for the general
> public?

  Yes, this would be very nice.  VM's pop support allows you to do this.  I 
suggest meditating upon it for a while to get ideas for features if you go
hacking upon pop3.el

  Since I have plenty of memory on all my machines, I just load VM and use
its pop retrieval stuff, like so:

(setq vm-pop-max-message-size 21000
      nnmail-movemail-program 'my-movemail)

(defun my-movemail (inbox crashbox)
  (require 'vm)
  (vm-pop-move-mail "aventail.com:110:pass:wmperry:*" crashbox)
  (vm-pop-move-mail "oz.net:110:pass:wmperry:*" crashbox))

-Bill P.